A high-school astronomy: in which the descriptive, physical, and practical are combined .. (1853)
Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868 · New York, F. J. Huntingdon [etc.] · leaf 173
stantly increases. The largewhite circle marks the limit of ournatural vision. Even this cut fails to present fully to the eye the cause of the rapid in-crease in numbers, for we can only show the surface of a cut section of our firmamentof stars, which exhibits the increase in a plane only;… … S4i*. Why so many more of small stars than of the larger r (Illustrate bydiagram. Does this convey a complete idea of the position of the sun, withreference to the fixed stars? Why not ? What does his position more nearlyresemble ?) , 8 170 ASTRONOMY. 350. If we suppose that each of these suns is…
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